Call For Papers

We are happy to announce that after Poznań in Poland, Bielefeld in Germany, Tilburg in the Netherlands and Nantes in France, GESPIN is back in Poznań. GESPIN is confessed mostly to studies of gesture and speech in interpersonal interaction.

Scope and contributions

The scope of the conference includes but is not limited to the following topics:

Multimodal models of cognition and utterance production and perception in face-to-face communication

Semiosis in multimodal utterances

Speech and gesture: grammars and lexicons

Coordination and timing relationship between gesture and speech

Relationship between and integration of speech prosody and gesture

Cross-modal analysis of multimodal utterances

Multimodal and multilingual corpora

Tools and schemes for gesture annotation and analysis

Speech and gesture modelling and generation

Gesture recognition in humans and machines

Gesture and speech in conversation

Speech and gesture production and perception: behavioural and neuroscientific studies

Multimodal language learning and teaching

Gesture and speech in child development

Contributors are invited to submit full papers (6 pages maximum) written in English. Papers will be sent to two reviewers and final selection will be discussed collectively by the local organising committee. Proceedings will be published as a special issue of Journal of Multimodal Communication Studies and will be available at the Conference. After the Conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a highly ranked linguistic journal. We also invite contributors to propose workshops or special sessions. (Details should be discussed with the Organising Committee.)

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The formatting details have been specified in the GESPIN 2017 Author’s package. The package includes templates in Open/Libre Office .ODT, Microsoft .DOC, and Adobe PDF formats. Only original papers, not submitted/published elsewhere are invited.